Kali-Yuga
How far will we go on Monday
I asked cause our speed had increased
That germ of transcendence is always within us, at least
I know we’ve got to keep on going
A fast car won’t ever rust
and these hands of invisible organic forces are pushing and pulling us
It’s a long way
through Kali-yuga
Age of iron
cooled in the ocean
and the mountains
are for exploring
Devils have danced on my doorstep
and Angels have sung in my yard
Wise men are hiding in the mountains
while most of us are working too hard
Speed is our last great invention
We race and we roll to arrive
by mineral, by mountain, by magnet and meteor
It’s hard enough to just get by
It’s a long way
to Kali-yuga
Age of iron
cooled in the ocean
and the mountains
are for exploring
January 19th, 2006
Originally titled: “Hands of Invisible Organic Forces”
~Title changed in to Kali-Yuga on 4/22/2002 at 1:43am…or so.
Here is an mp3 version of “Hands of invisible forces” with alternate Kali-Yuga lyrics
January 23rd, 2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali-Yuga
“Kali Yuga is sometimes referred to as the Iron Age because it was also the time when forging iron was discovered. Throughout the Kali Yuga, human civilisation degenerates further…In Kali Yuga, people are no longer respected for intelligence, knowledge or spiritual wisdom. Instead, material wealth and, to a lesser extent, physical strength, are what make a person highly regarded. Even though respect is shown superficially among the people, no one sincerely respects anyone. Everyone believes that the ultimate goal in life is to be respected, hence becoming wealthy and physically strong.”
http://pages.zoom.co.uk/thuban/html/kaliyuga.html
“According to the Hindu tradition of cosmology, we are now nearing the end of the Kali Yuga (the Age of Iron) which is the final and most negative of four evolutionary Yugic cycles.”
February 11th, 2006
There is some disagreement about the timing the Yugas. This from Paramahanda Yogananda, in Autobiography of a Yogi (pg. 167):
“My guru [Sri Yuketeswar] determined by various calculations that the last Kali Yuga, or Iron Age, of the Ascending Arc, started about A.D. 500. The Iron Age, 1200 years in duration, is a span of materialism; it ended about A.D. 1700. That year ushered in Dwapara Yuga, a 2400-year period of electrical and atomic-energy developments: the age of telegraphy, radio, airplanes, and other space-annihilators.”
March 22nd, 2006
It seems true that the overall tone of Kali Yuga (the age, not the song) is negative (”final and most negative” -J.Greco) but I thought that there was in Hindu tradition a notion of eternity in which these ages are constantly cycling. There is no “final”. A world withoutend.
Like seasons. You gotta have the season of death and decay from which life is born anew. All this Age is just manure.
From this could spring “that germ of transcendence” (…”is
always within us, at least” ) which the song speaks of.
In finality, I thought these ages lasted hundreds of thousands of years and shit.
April 19th, 2006
tooling about an such, hear it what I heard…
11-09-01 first played as “hands” with what I’ll call phase one lyrics
11-27-01 instrumental
11-30-01 instrumental
12-02-01 instrumental
12-08-01 Phase2 lyrics start
01-10-02 Phase2 lyrics
01-11-02 Phase2 lyrics
01-16-02 Phase2 lyrics
01-17-02 no lyrics, instrumental
01-21-02 no lyrics, instrumental
01-25-02 no lyrics, instrumental
01-27-02 no lyrics, instrumental
02-02-02 no lyrics, instrumental
02-22-02 -first time tbone sings “How far will we go on Monday”
-goodbye Hands, hello Kali-Yuga…easier to type, thanks Trev
04-12-02 first transition out of Hot Dog
this transition became a staple and really got Kali-yuga rolling.
04-20-02 intro changed, keys dont build as they used to into scotty
05-03-02 the earlist version most like the current stand alone, as the intro was changed alot during 2002
06-09-02 first transition into Hot Dog
07-17-02 intro before lyrics is 2:15 and josh leads into Scotty
etc…towards the end of 2002 and through may 2003 they really started honed the Kali-yuga intro, by locking down the the roll we have all become accustomed too. Having been transitioned out of Hot Dog so much the intro changed alot, but the build start taking shape in the aforementioned period as it stood alone quite often. without hotdog in front of it KY really developed IMO, the building intro. with HDog obv no intro in required. that build is really sweet IMO
whew. it’s I gotta stop listening now.
I try and post the original lyrics soon ?
June 10th, 2006
Tab:
Am G D xalot
C D, C D, C D, A
D G D, D G D, G C G G, C G D, G C G G, C G D,
D G
Jam on Dminorish scale (Same keys as F scale for Keyboard players - I wish I knew guitar scales)
Then to D
C D, C D, C D, A
July 14th, 2006
I’m not sure if we have any philosophers in the house, but for what its worth the lyrics to Kali Yuga have a certain Transcendentalist fervor to them. If you read the chapter titled Economy in Henry David Thoreau’s Walden the themes match up very closely.
As a side note, the idea of Kali-Yuga and society’s path of De-Evolution (if you will) are very close to Thoreau’s “less is more, simplicity is best” mentality.
Wise Men are Hiding in Mountains? A hidden reference to a certain aforementioned man spending a couple of years by a pond in Massachusettes?? Stranger things have happened.